Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I have talked to a lot of people who took short classes and about half decided not to get their license or if they did, not carry a firearm, as they 1. had no clue what or how to do it, or 2 the instructor told them the liability didn't make carrying worthwhile. Then those that took the longer classes felt more at ease in carrying, and around 90% did carry. It is a human trait not to do things they do not know how to do.

Among law abiding folks, I see 4 types Gun owners, People who own guns, people who don't own guns, and anti-gun people. Now for the vast majority of Gun owners they are pretty knowledgeable and some fairly skilled, then of the people who own guns, some have knowledge, and a few have some skill, a lot are like Barney Fife when it comes to anything beyond shooting paper. Then when the people who don't own guns start signing up, Instructors can take the time to educate them, or just process them through.

Do not assume they all know what you may know, and trainers should remember that their students may only have what they learned in class to defend themselves

Knowledge is a powerful source of strength, and if your concealed carry instructor does not give you the information, then you are responsible for finding out.

To quote Massad Ayoob:

“Maintaining a deadly weapon for self-defense is an
awesome responsibility. It carries the legal power to perhaps deliberately end the life of
another human being under an extraordinary circumstance.

Such responsibility
demands a clear and complete understanding of the law, both criminal and civil.
It mandates a high level of judgment, and the ability to activate it swiftly.
It demands technical skills involving marksmanship and an understanding of firearms
and combat ballistics and tactics.”

When employers do not allow guns on company property, it means they have disarmed all of those folks on the commute from and to home. So anywhere along the way those employees are defenseless against criminal attack. If FedEx valued their people, they as a company would not remove the means that employees could protect themselves. But as with most companies FedEx is just worried about covering their own a**, and the employees are just overhead, and replaceable.

I'd also ask how their policy prevents someone intent on doing harm from bringing a weapon to work, and causing mayhem. The policy didn't keep an ex-FedEx employee from carrying a shotgun into the company facility in Chicago last fall and offing himself.

NRA show this year was great, but not my year to be there I guess, somewhere Friday misplaced my credit card, and thankfully canceled it. Did not pack modem or power cord for lap top, and left camera in the car as it was pouring rain when we arrived

The best parts were seeing people I know like Massad Ayoob, Marty Shaw, a quick hello with Julie Golob, and some of those I have trained with, met Ron Pincus. Perhaps I wasn't in the blogging mood.

Did see and handle the new M&P single stack and it looks to hold some promise for the ccw crowd

Perhaps the silliest gun I saw was the lever action Circuit Judge

Between Rossi and Taurus they have sold a boatload or two, and I suppose they ride that horse as long as they can.

All the NRA shows I've attended have been crowded but this one had gridlock, and it seemed to much trouble to try to fight the crowd to get back to the few products that might have proved interesting. But it is good to know so many were attending, and perhaps we will have the numbers in November.

I didn't attend but saw some of the speeches on C span, and I did find Newt moving, it was the idea that "All" men should have the choice to be armed, not just here but everywhere.

“If I were to,
let’s say, arrest a 17-year-old this afternoon who doesn’t have a driver’s
permit, never had a driver’s permit, that 17-year-old could pay $75 at the
local police station and be on the street in a car an hour later,” he said

St. Louis University Public Law Review
Concludes there are at least 400,000 "fewer violent
crimes due to civilian
self-defense use of guns" and at
least "800,000 violent
crimes are deterred each
year because of gun ownership and use by civilians."

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

This is pretty common issue with new shooters, once had a student shooting a .357 and he looked like he was doing the Limbo, he seemed surprised how much easier he could control the pistol, when he leaned into it rather than away from it.

Although I never needed my gun at work, although there were a couple of events that I thought I might, I was more concerned about the trip to and from, that something might take place. Both events at work the persons in question left, went home and returned with a gun, luck or something stopped them from hurting anyone. Once a manager came and ask me if I had my gun with me, I said yes, why?, and he said so so had left and had threatened to come back with an AK, and he wanted my gun in case he did, I said no, if he comes back, I'll take care of it. He didn't so nothing happened. Even though it was against policy, the managers were fine with the fact I had a gun at work.

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